Beginning this last Sunday, John Marshall, the lead artist on the classic comic Blondie, has his name credited along side of Dean Young as the feature’s creators. John has been the lead artist for Blondie since 2005 and before that was the assistant artist since 2002. The article linked above has some interesting information as […]

Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has photos of Diesel Sweeties in newspapers even though the official launch isn’t until Monday. Apparently with FoxTrot leaving, R. Stevens cranked out a “special batch” of Diesel Sweeties for newspapers wanting to begin DS in FoxTrot’s vacant spot.

I’m not sure when the Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award was announced, but on his web site there are the 2006 winners. First place went to Alfredo Sabat for Argentina. Second and third place went to: Jean Planteureux (France) and David Pope (Australia). There were a few Canadian and American cartoonist who received Citations of […]

With a client list of over 1000 newspapers, FoxTrot’s departure is creating a large shift in the number of features that are being picked to fill the vacancy. While I don’t have access to the syndicate’s official numbers, I have collected from google searches a snapshot of some of the changes happening across the country. […]

Corey Pandolph writes in to announce that his efforts to get 200 pre-order sales of this Barkeater Lake book has been achieved and he’s going to move ahead with printing the book. Fans of the strip can still pre-order over on his blog. The re-launch of the comic feature on his web site is January […]

A couple of weeks ago I alerted you to an eerie incident of great intrigue! One of the Garfield statues that were erected in Marion County Indiana to draw tourists to Jim Davis‘ home town/county had been decapitated and police had very few leads as to the culprit. It appears that the case has been […]

The Flying McCoys caption contest that was announced back in October has announced its winner after reviewing over 3000 entries. The winning caption ran on Saturday, December 30 and says: “By the way Jim, here’s that $50 I owe you.” Other captions have been posted on Glenn and Gary McCoy’s web site.

BTW, I’m taking the day off. No updates today. I’ve got a back-log of stories so make sure you return tomorrow!Alan

The behind the scenes events surrounding the Judge Parker creators could be worthy of their own story-line. After receiving a steady flow of complaints and inquiries in the comment section of this blog regarding the abruptly changing artwork of Judge Parker, I started to poke around to see what warranted such a strong reaction. I […]

Editorial cartoonist Justin Bilicki has started a blog. In addition to posting his finished cartoons, Justin also posts his rough sketches.Hat tip: AAEC Web site.

Several web sites are reporting that Hardin “Jack” Burnley, died last Tuesday on December 19 at the age of 95. Jack was best known for his contribution to Superman, Batman and other comic book heroes. According to E&P, Jack “did sports cartoons in the 1930s, and later drew the “Batman” comic strip and newspaper illustrations.”

The Palisaidan-Post has written a really good article on Paul Conrad (spurred on by the release of his book, I, Con: The Autobiography of Paul Conrad, Editorial Cartoonist). If you’re an editorial cartoonist, take a moment to read this article about this legend. In this article Paul talks about how he stumbled into editorial cartooning […]

Ted Rall, who contemplated suing conservative columnist/author Ann Coulter for libel after she suggested (jokingly or otherwise) that Ted had entered the Iranian Holocaust cartooning contest, has decided against launching the suit on the grounds that it would be expensive and the verdict unclear.From his blog: One needs to have two things on one’s side […]

Dan Thompson writes in to inform me that his comic strip Lost Sheep is moving from Universal Press’ GoComics.com to the humorousmaximus.com web site at the end of this month. Dan is one of the founders of Humorous Maximus along with other notables such as Jerry King.

Charles Boyce, creator of Compu-toon, will have a two month exhibit of his comic panel at the Barrington Area Arts Council Gallery in Barrington, IL. The exhibit begins January 8th and runs through February 28th.